David Tennant confirms he has six toes on his right foot: ‘It’s like a nubbin’

Physician Who, Harry Potter, Broadchurch, and lately Rivals, have meant the British public have gotten fairly used to seeing David Tennant’s angular (but type) face and listening to his warbled Scottish tones. A lot so, his face is without doubt one of the most well-known in British TV and movie.

However whereas we all know the creases on his brow all too properly, nobody other than a clandestine community of Tennant-obsessed Redditors have found something uncommon about his toes. Till now.

Whereas Reddit observed one thing was afoot with the 53-year-old’s proper trotter, he confirmed to Metro that it does certainly home six toes. You’re very welcome.

‘Do individuals know that?’ we ask, to which David replied: ‘Properly, they do now.’

So… Is it the little toe? Does it level out or up? Many questions.

‘It’s form of like a nubbin,’ David confirms. On the little toe aspect of his proper foot. Cute!

Someway we doubt David shall be getting his lanky appendages out when he takes to the stage on February 16 to host the Bafta Movie Awards for the second 12 months operating. (Though that might be each memorable and awe-inspiring.)

‘It’s a beautiful factor to be requested to do and it’s an enormous privilege, and it’s very giddy-making,’ David says.

‘However I’ve form of acquired a little bit of a free go, as a result of no person expects me to be any good at it.’

Humble David was a success host in 2024 – so let’s hope this 12 months shall be no completely different…

‘It was a barely mad factor to be requested to do, not one thing I ever aspired to or imagined would come my method,’ he confesses.

‘While you’re standing on that stage looking in any respect essentially the most well-known individuals on the planet, you simply suppose: How did I find yourself doing this?’

In abstract, David hopes: ‘I believe I simply need to not break it once more, actually.’

As is the host’s obligation, the Physician Who star can’t single out his favorite movies of the 12 months, with The Brutalist, Nosferatu, The Substance, Depraved and Wallace & Gromit amongst these nominated.

‘I’m going to stay solely impartial,’ David says.

He has a equally diplomatic response when requested – off the again of his masterful portrayal of merciless Tony Baddingham in Rivals – whether or not he would ever need to play a Bond villain.

‘It might be fairly an odd factor to say no to, I believe. However you understand, I’m not going to encourage headlines by answering that too candidly,’ he teases.

Whereas David has an A-lister tendency to mince his phrases – honest sufficient – he’s extraordinarily modest for a person together with his iMDB.

With two Emmy Awards below his belt, six NTAs and a Bafta, the Harry Potter actor has entertained thousands and thousands – however admits he fails to have the identical impact on his 4 kids.

‘[If I’m in a film] they normally discover a cause to change on to one thing else, as a result of it takes the enjoyment out, doesn’t it? You don’t need to have boring previous dad creeping up on one thing,’ David says, including: ‘Though they do fairly like Nativity 2.’

Fortunately, the Hamlet actor sticks round within the trade to not impress anybody – particularly his children – however to do work that connects with individuals.

‘I suppose the final word objective of any inventive trade is to the touch individuals and to make a distinction, and to create one thing that resonates in any individual’s life,’ he says.

David has a nuanced reply when requested for his most significant work.

‘If one thing very entertaining hits somebody at a degree the place they should be taken out of a darkish place, then that may be essentially the most vital factor ever,’ David says.

He added: ‘Issues imply various things to all types of various individuals, and will be acquired very particularly to a second in somebody’s life. So I don’t suppose you may rank them in that method.’

However he does land on just a little identified BBC Two present referred to as There She Goes.

‘Creator Shaun Pye wrote about his life. He has a daughter with very extreme particular wants, and he was very candid, sincere and truthful about what it’s wish to have a baby with that many challenges,’ David explains of the 2018 BBC drama, which has a formidable 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

‘That’s in all probability essentially the most profound response I’ve had. From mother and father of youngsters with comparable wants who’ve seen their lives in a chunk of artwork in a method that they’ve by no means seen it mirrored earlier than.’

The Bafta Movie Awards will air on February 16, 2025 on BBC One.

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